China reviews ’12-’15 human rights progress, vows to improve
Under constant fire for suppression of human rights, China Tuesday said civil and political rights of its people have been effectively improved in the last three years, but acknowledged that the world
Under constant fire for suppression of human rights, China Tuesday said civil and political rights of its people have been effectively improved in the last three years, but acknowledged that the world’s most populous nation has a long way to realise higher-level protection of rights.
Citizens’ civil and political rights have been effectively protected, and the people have been guaranteed and supported to act as masters of their own country, an official report reviewing the human rights development from 2012 to 2015 said. The supervision and examination against extortion of confession by torture and other illegal acts have been strengthened, the report said.
“There is still a long way to go to realise higher-level protection of human rights in China and hard efforts must be made,” state-run Xinhua news agency quoted it as saying. China is under constant criticism from international rights group for crackdown on political dissidents, specially against human rights lawyers. Also China has been criticised for restrictions on religious practices in Xinjiang, the home of Muslim Uyghurs as well as in Tibet, where the Dalai Lama is revered as living Buddha despite decades of his exile.